Observing the Fiftieth anniversary of the 1954 United States Supreme court School desegregation decision in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

As we commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas U. S. Supreme Court public school desegregation decision (hereafter the Brown decision), I was tempted to refer to it as a “celebration of the Golden Anniversary of the legal end to racial segregation in the public schools of the United States.” When the decision was rendered, on May 17, 1954, I was so elated that I was confident that fifty years later public school racial desegregation would be a thing of the past and a truly “golden celebration” would be highly appropriate. And